Learn more about being politically effective and your existing gun laws.

Constitutional Carry
It's time for
"Freedom To Carry" to replace so-called "Right To Carry." The
right to discreetly bear arms should not require a government-issued
permission slip, taxes and an expiration date.

Gun-Free-Zone Liability Act
So-called gun-free zones are known to be dangerous, reckless and
negligent, but private property rights allow a person to create one. If
you create a dangerous make-believe gun-free zone, you should be liable
for any harm it causes.

High School Marksmanship Act
An elective class worth one credit toward your H.S. diploma,
earned after you safely discharge a firearm at a target. "Educating kids
on the constitutional roots of the right to keep and bear arms, and the
role of firearms in preserving peace and freedom."

The American Historical Rights Protection Act
If a person has a gun, the person isn't a criminal, the gun isn't
illegal, the place isn't a gun-free zone, and the person doesn't change
the normal operation of the place, that is not a crime.

Defensive Display
Warning an attacker that you're armed is now protected by law in
at least Montana and Arizona. The warning can be verbal, a motion or
reach, or presentation of a firearm in a way a person would understand
is meant to protect against an assault.

The Firearms Freedom Act
Montana says a gun that's made in Montana, and stays in
Montana,
has no interstate-commerce-clause hook for federal regulation.
Other states are joining them, Tennessee already has. The feds don't
like this one bit.

BIDS v. NICS
If we must have gun-buyer background checks to stop criminals,
at least do it without compiling massive records on the innocent. A
simple system called BIDS can do this,
and at far far less cost than NICS.

Sunshine Gun Laws
Several dozen ideas in sound-bite size, as food for thought. You have to
take some of these items with a grain of salt, because they are long
shots (even funny!) at present, but some would sure help protect our
rights.

Limited Immunity for 911 Emergency Reporting
If you have the right to remain silent, and the right to have an
attorney present prior to and during questioning, why are you encouraged
to call 911 after a self-defense incident and speak into a police voice
recorder? You should have protection from having your traumatized
statements used against you, and violating your Fifth Amendment right
against self incrimination.

Enumerated Powers Act
Proposed for 16 years by my former Congressman, John Shadegg
(CD-3, Ariz.), and ignored by Congress all that time, this requires
every introduced bill to identify where in the Constitution such
lawmaking is authorized. Congress in late 2010 began taking it
seriously. Every state should have such a laws as well.

Teeth Clauses
It is not enough for a law to say government shall not do some
particular act, such as creating a central registry of gun owners. Laws
must be written with teeth, thus: Anyone who creates a central registry
of gun owners shall pay a fine and go to prison. This would apply to
people in the Justice Dept. for example, who created a central registry
on long guns from the four Mexico-border states, in violation of
toothless language in the Firearm Owners P{rotection Act (now 18 USC
§922). Nothing happened to them for doing this, despite the explicit ban
in statute.